Lessons in Truth and Ladders
It is pretty much official, Eckenrode House is moving operations to Manhattan. In preparation for this venture, The Wife has been on an advanced scouting mission for the past week. She has been wildly successful. The cubs and I have been continuing to live our days here, and trying to go about our normal routines of school and development.
So with that said, yesterday morning, I promised TheBubster that we’d get ice cream after school. Since she has reached the age where she remembers these promises and reminds you of them, even when you have forgotten them, we had to go to Christina’s Ice Cream shop. Over ice cream, we started talking. She asked my why I was sharing mine with LittleBud, and I said because he’s my buddy. This lead to a discussion of what a buddy is, which turned into a discussion about belief which turned into a discussion about truth. See how fast you peel away the layers and get to the heart of the matter when you are talking with a four year old?
It’s like Carl Sagan says, “If you want to bake an Apple Pie from scratch, first you have to invent the Universe.”
Our discussion of truth sort of started to go down the road towards logic states and how some things can be true in one situation but not true in another, but the ice cream was gone by then and it was time to go.
When we got home, TheBubster decided she wanted to play with her OLPC, so she carried into her room and sat on the floor with it. Then when LittleBud was bothering her too much, because he wanted to play with the pretty green laptop too, we moved her onto her bed. Her bed is six feet off the floor, and is accessible only by climbing a ladder. And the thought was, He’s not even walking yet, he certainly can not climb a ladder.
Well if you have seen the picture, then you know, that not only can he climb the ladder, but he can climb the whole way. Seems its all about incentives, and that is an entirely different set of lessons.
